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Jesus Christ. So to speak.
I look forward to your review.
Ah. That brings back childhood memories. (Only I was the kid with her arms folded, wanting to know if anybody had ever actually SEEN this God person.)
I grew up in a traditional protestant church, bible camp, church choir, youth choir, youth group, church camp, sunday school, afternoon sermons and even ‘lay ministry’ — a euphemism for recruiting people into fundamentalism.
I don’t think I could stomach that movie.
Me too, kate. Maybe I could take it if I had a large bottle of whiskey next to me for the whole movie.
*shudders* Ew.. just ew. Reminds me too much of my childhood in the Southern Baptist sector, bleh.
Those poor poor children :(
I hope that they can find the personal strength, and get the chance someday to see that they have a RIGHT to make their own choice about how to live their lives… that there are other ways of seeing and living in the world.
My heart breaks for these children. My heart breaks for all children being raised by fundamentalists, and who are not being raised to “think” instead of “blindly follow” – whatever their religion/philosophy – there is no difference.
I just saw it yesterday, and thought it was pretty good. It was best when it got inside the heads of its subjects, when it tried to let them explain why they were doing what they were doing–why, for example, the public schools scared them so much. It was much weaker when it played to the cheap seats and went into gratuitious “look at the silly fundies!” mode. I think they should have cut out the scenes with the left-wing DJ entirely, for example. Hope you post a review….
I fucking hate the concept of brainwashing kids like that. I remember being afraid of going to hell when I was a little kid. Anybody–ANYBODY–who plants thoughts like that in a child’s mind is evil!
All religion is bullshit. The fact that there are still millions upon millions of people who are religious, whether xian, jew,muslim, zoroastrian, hindu, or whatever just shows that humans haven’t really advanced much, and probably never will.
“I was saved at 5 when I realized I wanted more out of life.”
at 5? did he even understand what wanting more out of life means?
Yeah Fruminous, a kid like that is heading straight for some serious cognitive dissonance right around the age of 13 or 14. Or winding up to become the next abortion doctor killer.
I love it when those types come up to me and say things like, “Obviously you haven’t found Jesus, have you discovered the bible?” or some such nonsense. They have to believe that no one could ever walk away from religion, so non-followers must be the lost sheep in the wilderness.
I’m in the world, the whole world, all by my little self and ain’t lost and I don’t need no damn ancient book to tell me how to think.
Ditto Kate!
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9.25.2006
Jesus Camp: A Review
Posted by Jill @ 10:09 am
As promised, I saw Jesus Camp yesterday, and now I have thoughts. I’ll warn yo [...]
Wow. That kid with the microphone and the tail (reeeeaaally narrow mullet?) scares the bejeebers out of me. How on EARTH can you possibly be “saved” at the age of five?
Please note — I’m not an atheist, exactly, but these kinds of people are seriously tempting me to head that way….